Tata Comms ties up with China Mobile to offer telepresence

BANGALORE, INDIA: Tata Communications has added a new 'virtual meeting' telepresence suite to its global network, in Shanghai. Launched in partnership with China Mobile and JW Marriott Hotel Shanghai, the new in-hotel facility provides participants high definition and immersive virtual collaboration experience.

Peter Quinlan, vice president, Integrated Business Video Services, Tata Communications, said: "China is currently the world's second largest economy and one of the fastest growing markets globally. The desire for convenient, immersive and professional business communications with this market has never been stronger."

Through a partnership with China Mobile, the JW Marriott Hotel Shanghai Telepresence facility will be connected to Tata Communications' Global Meeting Exchange Telepresence inter-exchange network.

This network has connectivity to all Tata Communications' private Telepresence rooms as well as the customers of service providers with whom it has inter-exchange connectivity agreements in place, and vice versa.

Tata Communications' Global Meeting Exchange Telepresence inter-exchange network also serves as a gateway to its public room telepresence network with more than 40 rooms across five continents, says the company in a release.

Silvio Rosenberger, General Manager, JW Marriott Hotel Shanghai says, "There is an increasing demand to incorporate technology, virtual meetings and social media into new meeting offerings from the next generation of business customers. As the only hotel in Shanghai equipped with a Telepresence meeting suite, this is another example of JW Marriott Hotel Shanghai's commitment to innovation by offering our clients an exciting, new meeting solution that facilitates a ‘face-to-face' meeting in the same room, regardless of global location."